Columba
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Columba or Colmcille was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission in what became Scotland. He founded the important abbey on Iona
Saint Columba, Apostle to the Picts
Ruins of Colmcille's Chapel at Gartan Lough
Stained-glass window of Colmcille founding Derry
Nineteenth century illustration of Columba's meeting with King Bridei, by William Hole
Scotland was divided into a series of kingdoms in the Early Middle Ages, i.e. between the end of Roman authority in southern and central Britain from around 400 AD and the rise of the kingdom of Alba
The so-called Daniel Stone, Pictish cross slab fragment found at Rosemarkie, Easter Ross
Dunadd Fort, Kilmartin Glen, probably the centre of the kingdom of Dál Riata
Looking north at Dumbarton Rock, 'fort of the Britons', the chief fort of Strathclyde from the 6th century to 870 when it was taken by the Vikings
St. Aidan, founder of Lindisfarne Priory